Anhydrous hydraulic cement and process.



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gg o ume R PLASTIC. 8 Z 69 UNITED sTATEs PATENT onuroir t iii EDWARD J. WINSLOW, or CHICAGO, inLinols't'f f 1 ANHYDROUS HYDRAULIC CEMENT AND PROCESS.

N 0. 837,169. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Nov. 27, 1906,

Application filed September 24, 1906- Serial No. 335.973-

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Be it known that I, EDWARD J. WrnsLow, cause such shred affords natural paths of a citizen of the United States, residing in (.izicleavage, and the cement therefore tends to cago, in the county of Cook and State of Illisplit along such shred with a part thereof ad- 5 nois, have invented a certain new and useful hering to the respective pieces of cement. Anhydrous Hydraulic Cement and Process, Heretofore the practice has been to mix the of which the following is a specification. asbestos with the hydraulic cement bymeans This invention relates to improvements in of a so-called flotation? process in which hydraulic cements which are in an anhydrous the mixing has been accomplished through 1o condition in contradistinction from a hythe agency of water in which the fiber and drated or set condition, and it concerns a peparticles of cement are held in suspension. culiar method of manufacturing the improved This solution, as it may be termed, is thorcement. oughly agitated unil a thorough mix is ob- One object of this invention is to obtain a tained. The use of a cement fiberized in this 15 dry pulverulent hydraulic cement in anhy- Way is unfortunately ry restricted,for the drous state and having very mtimately and reason that the use of water causes the hythoroughly commingled therewith a multidraulic cement to become hydrated, and it is plicity of vgy n in ut;e lnjtary fibers of asbestherefore necessary to 2).; once shape or mold tos which mixture is adapted to be userv 111 the pasty mixture before it can harden or set. 7 5 zml the same manner as an ordinary hy- As will be obvious, such a mixture cannot be draulic cement by the application of water, used at a pointappreciably distant from the but which will when hardened possess greater mixing plant, and as the latter is somewhat tensile strength and resiliency. complex in nature and requires some little Another object is to provide a cementitious manipulative skill to get satisfactory results 2 5 composition of the foregoing nature which the use of highly-fiberized cement has been can be shipped in a condition suitable for be- 1 noticeably limited. ing hydrated at a later time and then shaped Notwithstanding the fact that it has hithor molded, as may be desired, without renerto been regarded as imperative that water dering it necessary for the user to undertake be employed in practice as the mixing agent 0 the difiicult. operation of introducing the fiber and that the requisite intimacy of mix and in the intimate degree essential to its best adfineness of division of the asbestos could not vantage. otherwise be practically obtained, I have Another object is to formulate a method of discovered after an exhaustive series of exintimately commingling a multiplicity of uniperiments that an exceedingly thorough mix 3 5 tary fibers of asbestos with a dry pulverulent can be obtained without in any wise hydratanhydrous hydraulic cement which will be ing the hydraulic cement, thereby producing cheap, easily carried out, and effective and a peculiar pulverulent cementitious material which will be characterized by a pulverulent which can be subse uentl h drated and product whichis inananhydrous stateand cacaused to harden and. set into any desired o pable of being rendered plastic and self-setshape. Thus I have obtained an independting by the addition of water. ence between the operations of fiberizing the In order that the essential characteristics cement and the molding thereof which has of this invention may be clearly understood, hitherto been unobtainable in practice. It it may be pointed out that h draulic cement may be noted atthis point that it is of the I00 5' is not materially improved'ih strefigthqfid utmost importance that the asbestos fibers resiliency by the additmn of shredded asbes; be not materially injured either during the tos unless the latter be in an eraeemi rv division of the asbestos pieces or during the fnd'eli d vi wl telr l but is to say, iimust mixing with the hydraulic cement, This is e ar ivit hat the resultant fibers or one of the difficulties encountered jwhen the I 5 50 filaments are incapable of being readily furoperation is attempted in the absence of ther divided along natural paths of cleavage. water. This, as well as the diffict'lties of di- Fibersof this naturemaybetermed the comviding sufficiently fine and of mixing in the ponent fibers of the asbestos. The underlyproper way, I have entirely overcome in an ing necessity for this extreme division will be exceedingly simple and effective manner. 11 55 grasped by remembering that every shred of This method is based upon the discovery, substantial size when embedded in cement is contrary to all expectations, that if the dry via,

then agitated, together with a number of rounded hard heav ob'ects the asbestos will Be prope'rly dlviged and separated into component fibers and at the same time be intimately con rningledwith the cement. In

practicefit'is preferable to em loy for said objects some hard material w ich will not discolor the cement by its grindings, and to this end, tough hard fair-size t ebbles 1 will be found very suit-able. L r a s E also be used; but their gri g color cement by subsequently rusting. These pebbles or balls are preferably loosely carried within the retaining vessel, so that as the latter is rotated they may tumble around and collide with the asbestos and the cement. Peculiar as it may seem, the impacts resolve, the asbestos into substantially its component fibers without materially breaking, crushing, or otherwise injuring them, and at the same time such fibers are thoroughly intermingled with the cement, so that, practically speaks hfi i i c a ,,"il ,.9 is separated bys'uch cement from its companions.

The composition produced by means of this mean be handled and treated as ordinary hydraulic cement and when hydrated i and molded will be found to'be not o' nlyliar afiastrcfiglyresi'st'ahfi to coiiipressirn, but also very tou h and of high tensile strength. It may be, a ter setting, out and otherwise w o 1 ked, muc v 111;-

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t is fiibe understood that the composition and method may be subject to certain obvious adaptations and modifications within the scope of the appended claims and that the language thereof is intended to cover all of disthe generic and specific features of the herein-described invention and all statements of the scope thereof which, as a matter of language, might be said to fall therebetween.

I accordingly claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent- 1. A pulverulent cementitious composition of matter adapted to be set by the admixture of Water consisting mainly of a mass of pulverulent anhydrous h drauliccement, and a suitable quantity of d'ry asbestos mixed therewith, said asbestos being thoroughly divided into a'multiplicity of minute component' 'fiber's which are thoroughly comming'led' with said dry pulverulent cement.

2. A pulverulent cementitious composition of matter adapted to be set by the admixture of water, composed mainly of a mass of pulverulent anhydrous hydraulic cement, and a quantity of asbestos dry-ground therewith and thoroughly divided into a multiplicity of separate component fibers which are intimately commingled with said dry pulverulent cement.

3. A process of making a pulverulent cementitious composition of matter adapted to be set by the admixture of Water, which consists in bringing together within a retaining vessel a mass of anhydrou s hydraulic cement, a

quantity of relatively coarse dry asbestos, and a number of independently-movable rounded objects of heavy hard material, then agitatin said contents of said vessel, whereby said as estos will be divided into a multi licityof separate component fibers and the atter intimately commingled with the dry pulverulent hydrai vlic cement.

In witness whereof I have signed the foregoing in the presence of the two undersigned -Witnesses.

EDWARD J. WINSLOW. Witnesses:

LEE RODGERS, S. H. PRICE. 

